I just watched Frank Kern's video about his "Secret" formula that helped him sell over 50 million dollars on the internet and thought I'd share my notes from it here. It was awesome! Frank is such an amazing marketing genius and he's dang funny too.
Step 1: Pattern Interrupt
People inherently are skeptical. They are bombarded with distractions more than ever. You have 9 seconds to have Continue Reading

If you want to know exactly where your traffic is coming from when using email, ppc, link posting on websites and blogs or anywhere else you market your website links then using Google URL builder is a pretty cool tool and quite helpful to be using. Plus it's free!
How to use it:
Once you visit the Google URL builder website simply fill out the fields with an asterisks and then click on Continue Reading

General
• What's required to open an account with you?
• Do you offer drop shipping?
• Do you have a per order drop shipping fee?
• Do you have any minimum order amounts?
Shipping
• What carriers (UPS / FedEx / UPS) do you ship with?
• Do you add any shipping charges on top of what is charged by the carrier?
• What are the daily pick-up times for each carrier from your warehouse?
• When Continue Reading

Here's how you go about finding drop-shippers:
Check your competitor websites and research where they are getting their supplies. Call them up and ask them "I'm wanting to order a product and would like to know if you ship the product to me from your own warehouse or from the manufacture's warehouse?" You don't have to do this, but it gives you a bit of a confirmation before you start Continue Reading

Model 1: Manufacturing - Importing
Benefits:
High Margins
Complete control over sales process
Opportunity to use wholesalers/dropshippers
Cons:
Significant upfront investment. Usually this is done after you've been in biz for a while and earned some money to do this.
Cash out before cash in
There's no easy way to exit the business if you don't like the busienss or the market Continue Reading